Personally, the only cards I've heard of that work consistently with
any Mac are the ones with the "Broadcom" chipset, I believe. To be more
precise, I know some Buffalo, Belkin, Motorola and the Sonnet Aria all
work with the Airport 3.1 driver. I'm ordering a Sonnet Aria for my
Lombard, along with a NewerTech battery, so that might be an option, if
you have an extra $70 or so lying around. My advice, check the card on
a Windows laptop, before deciding whether it's a bum card or not.
HTH,
Caleb
On Monday, Jan 2, 2006, at 13:26 America/Chicago, Tom and Lisa Peters
wrote:
On Jan 1, 2006, at 6:25 PM, Lists wrote:
This makes a total of 5 completely unrelated Subjects: covered by
the same thread, where people just changed the Subject: line instead
of starting a new thread by clicking NEW.
I'm sorry, what are you whinging about? Every one of the posts in
this thread had something to do with Tom's problem with the CompUSA
wireless card.
Tom, try the IOXpert drivers, you can use them on a trial basis to
see if the card works with them.
I installed the drivers, but that didnt seem to do anything.
Alternatively, poke around at the Windows drivers provided on the
disk that came with it. There's an .INF file that's in the install
directories for Windows that will open in a text editor, and may
contain the manufacturer identification.
--
Bruce Johnson
When opened the net8185.inf file with text edit, it says the provider
is Realtek.
A trip to www.realtek.com.tw indicates they have they have a PCMCIA
wireless card "8185" :
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-
3.aspx?lineid=2002111&famid=2004112&series=All&Software=True
It says its for 10.4, but I only have 10.3.9 on my lombard. I
installed anyway but when I try and run the wireless utility it tells
me there is no wireless LAN card installed. It might be you have to
have 10.4 on the machine.
At no point am I getting any lights on the card so it is possible its
a bum card. The fact that Realtek has a mac driver is encouraging
though.
Mad Dog
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